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96.9 new call letter application

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Greater Media's Rhythmic AC "Hot 96.9" WTKK Boston has applied for new WBQT call letters.

Kinda like WBOT eh?
A cable only CW affiliate in Western Mass uses the 'call letters" WBQT
>>The call letters are fictional since it is a cable-exclusive station and part of The CW Plus. The station does not have an actual owner and has a signal provided to cable companies through a closed circuit satellite feed. (Wiki)
 
Wonder what the significance of the new call letters is? WBQT - maybe just further distancing themselves from the talk format.
 
Someone on my facebook wondered why not WBOT or WZOU. Not sure how accurate it is but
acc to radio-locator both are available.
 
itsthesong said:
Wonder what the significance of the new call letters is? WBQT - maybe just further distancing themselves from the talk format.
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Seeing as how they'll most likely only be whispered once an hour, they don't need to have any significance. The only people who'll be referring to the station by its call letters, outside of regulatory agencies, are in the print media and on boards like this.
 
Like I was saying i'm wondering if wbot is still under radio one's control. And wzou's past is linked to 94.5 top 40 days.
 
Callsigns can't be kept under "control" unless there's a licensed station on which to park them. CBS Radio can prevent anyone else in Boston from using "WBCN" because it moved those calls from Boston to an AM station in Charlotte, N.C. Radio One didn't park the WBOT calls on any other station.

That said, the FCC's own callsign query tool (http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/callsign/main.html) doesn't show either WBOT or WZOU as being available. In both cases, that looks like a database glitch in which those calls were never properly freed up in the callsign reservation system after last being used.

Sometimes, however, calls are used for other purposes, especially Coast Guard vessels. Working with the FCC's callsign desk can usually get those calls freed up, but you have to know how to ask, and it can take time.
 
i'm wondering if once all is said and done hot 96.9 is going to be closer to hot 97 in nyc?? similar call signs might be a shot in the dark but one never knows.
 
sounds different I guess im used to wtkk!! loving the playlist though.
 
I as well am used to "WTKK" ... But i guess ill get used to "WBQT" wondering if there is any meaning to this new call sign as well...? the music is great either way.
 
Bosch94 said:
I as well am used to "WTKK" ... But i guess ill get used to "WBQT" wondering if there is any meaning to this new call sign as well...? the music is great either way.
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Well...... nothing lasts forever on 96.9. With 8 different sets of call-letters since 1948, I'm sure this will be just another "bump in the road" for 96.9 until next format change. With so many CHR's (call it what you will) in the market, one or two or them will give up the format. WHO? Time will tell........................... NEXT!!!!!! ;)
 
I've always meant to do an analysis of which letters stations use most often in their call letters. In Boston, B, is probably used the most (WBZ, WCVB, WCRB, WGBH, WBCN, WBMX, WKLB, etc.). Aside from some snappy catch phrase like "kiss" or "jamn" I wonder why stations request particular combinations of letters. Is it that one letter sounds more forceful than another (e.g, W ZEE L X)? Or that some combinations of letters are harder to pronounce (I always thought WWWE in Cleveland was a mouthful if you say out the three w's).
 
aerie said:
I've always meant to do an analysis of which letters stations use most often in their call letters. In Boston, B, is probably used the most (WBZ, WCVB, WCRB, WGBH, WBCN, WBMX, WKLB, etc.). Aside from some snappy catch phrase like "kiss" or "jamn" I wonder why stations request particular combinations of letters. Is it that one letter sounds more forceful than another (e.g, W ZEE L X)? Or that some combinations of letters are harder to pronounce (I always thought WWWE in Cleveland was a mouthful if you say out the three w's).
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WWWE called itself "3WE" on air, other than in legal IDs.
 
Call letters these days are like automobile vanity plates: they're only important to the owner, and only significant to the issuing authority. (FCC/Registry) Most heritage stations still use their 4-letter calls because they've always been known by them. Everyone else whispers or mumbles their calls near the TOH, and uses their "branding" (Hot, Jamn, Kiss, etc.) the rest of the time. Otherwise, calls just "sit on the bumper and rot". Seriously, if I were given the task of picking calls for "Whoopie 104," I'd just as soon have the FCC assign a random set if I'm not going to use them otherwise. PPM doesn't need them, and my slogan and dial position would be registered with the ratings services for recall (diary) purposes.
 
I know that calls are usually "meaning less" these days but was wondering what WBQT would stand for... Ex. WXKS KS=Kiss... WJMN JMN= Jam'n...WODS ODS=Oldies (pre AMP) WBMX MX=Mix and so on.. But if they do not stand for anything.. thats seems kind of boring to me... Unless I am just a radio nut. ??? Which may be why I am posting on this board.. Lol.
 
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